DayZ Achievement and Trophy Guide for Every Platform

Some DayZ trophies unlock naturally. Others feel like the game is quietly asking whether you enjoy errands during an apocalypse. This guide lists every DayZ achievement and explains how to trigger each one.

Before You Start Unlocking DayZ Trophies

DayZ trophies do not unlock on community servers. Play on official servers if you want achievements to trigger. The trophy list is also the same across DayZ versions, including PlayStation and Xbox.

Act of Mercy

• Description: Killed my first infected.
• How to get it: Kill your first infected with any weapon. Fists count if that is all you have.

Bodily Needs

• Description: Ate and drank something.
• How to get it: Eat any food item, including the fruit or vegetable given to a new character, then find and drink something safe, ideally clean water. This can be harder on maps with harsher starts, such as the upcoming Badlands map.

Geared

• Description: Equipped a firearm, a melee weapon, and a backpack.
• How to get it: Equip all three item types at the same time. Police stations and army checkpoints are strong places to search.

Pacify

• Description: Killed an infected soldier.
• How to get it: Find and kill an infected wearing a military uniform. Army checkpoints are a good place to try.

Field Cook

• Description: Cooked a steak on a stick.
• How to get it: Gather a sharp tool such as an axe or knife, a steak, a long sharpened stick, a fire starter, and a fireplace. Start the fire, put the steak on the stick, and cook it.

Lobotomy

• Description: Killed twenty survivors or infected with a headshot.
• How to get it: Kill survivors or infected with headshots as you move through the map. Avoid tools that make precision harder, such as fists or shotguns.

Babyface

• Description: Shaved my face.
• How to get it: Spawn as a male character, wait about 90 in-game minutes, equip a bladed weapon, and choose the Shave option.

Natural Instincts

• Description: Gutted a deer.
• How to get it: Use a long-range weapon, such as a scoped rifle, to kill a deer. Walk to the carcass and gut it with an axe or knife.

I’m the Firestarter

• Description: Ignited fire using a matchbox, a road flare, and a hand drill.
• How to get it: Start fires using each required ignition source: a matchbox, a road flare, and a hand drill.

Marksman

• Description: Killed a survivor at more than three hundred meters.
• How to get it: This is easier with allies because judging 300 meters alone is awkward. Have a teammate help confirm distance, then use a strong scoped rifle to land the shot.

Note: Expect this one to take more than one attempt.

Close and Personal

• Description: Killed fifteen survivors with any melee weapon.
• How to get it: Team coordination helps here too. Down targets, then finish them with a melee weapon until the trophy triggers.

Heal the World

• Description: Applied bandages to other survivors thirty times.
• How to get it: Bandage bleeding players 30 times. One practical method is repeatedly downing and healing the same player until the achievement unlocks.

You Have the Right…

• Description: Handcuffed ten people.
• How to get it: Restrain 10 players with rope, wire, duct tape, or handcuffs. A microphone and voice chat can make surrendering negotiations much easier.